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Summary

Delivering high-quality perioperative care for high-risk surgical patients is central to improving outcomes and ensuring equitable access to care. Enhanced Perioperative Care (EPC) services are a key part of this effort, but implementation can be challenging and variable.

The Barriers to Evidence-based Enhanced Perioperative Care (BEE-EPC) survey invites clinical and non-clinical staff involved in EPC across England to share their experiences. Your insights will directly inform research to strengthen perioperative services for patients having major surgery.

The survey takes under five minutes. Please share with all colleagues involved in perioperative care.

Background

Enhanced Perioperative Care (EPC) services are increasingly recognised as an important element in improving outcomes for high-risk surgical patients and in supporting hospitals to use critical care capacity more effectively. National reports, including those from CPOC and NHS England, have recommended the development of EPC provision, and several new services are now established across England. However, implementation has been highly variable and often challenging.

The Barriers to Evidence-based Enhanced Perioperative Care (BEE-EPC) survey seeks to capture front-line insights into the obstacles and enablers to establishing and sustaining EPC. We are interested in hearing from all staff involved in perioperative services, including anaesthetists, nurses, allied health professionals, and non-clinical managers. By collating these experiences, we hope to identify common patterns that can inform national bodies, local services, and professional organisations on how best to support EPC delivery.